9 Jul
2004
9 Jul
'04
7:16 p.m.
In message <3.0.6.32.20040709221423.008f2a40(a)pop-server.cfl.rr.com>
"Joe R." <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> wrote:
Can you suggest any good sources to learn more
about VideoLAN and other
products to get around this stupid and the other rediculous DVD "features".
I'm not that knowledgeable about DVD but I hate being forced to watch all
their ads and other crap.
If you've got a machine that runs either Windows or
Linux, you can get
binaries and source code from <http://www.videolan.org/>. Although VLC is
still under development, it's actually quite stable. It plays nearly
anything - DivX/XviD AVIs, MPEGs, MP3s, DVDs, "OGM" (Ogg) video files,
"Matroska" video files, plus a few other things.
The DVD decoder seems to work quite well on PCs down to about 500MHz. VLC
seems to be designed to skip frames if the video is running faster/slower
than the audio. Windows Media Player (spit) appears to play the audio and
video, and doesn't do a great deal of frameskipping.
The nice thing about VLC is that you can have a DVD playing one one machine,
then stream it over a LAN, assuming the LAN is fast enough (mine isn't;
10BaseT Ethernet isn't really fast enough for streaming DVD video in
realtime).
Later.
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